Terry Simpson wrote in USMA 23314
Joseph B. Reid wrote:
>Please quote the text where NIST equated "metric" and "SI".
[begin quote}
NIST wrote that it is confusing and redundant: a) to use the term "SI
metric" system because it implies that there are metric systems other
than the International System of Units (SI),
[end quote]
http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fpla/basis_jan1994.html
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Terry Simpson
I have just done a close reading of NIST 811 and could find
nothing to support this interpretation. I then read the document that
Terry cited. It is a summary of the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act.
The only relevant statement in that document is:
section (a)(2) specifies that the metric disclosure shall use the "SI metric system." The "SI" system is the International System of Units (Le Systeme International d'Unites) as interpreted or modified for use in the United States by the Secretary of Commerce. (55 FR 52242, Dec. 20, 1990.) There are several government publications giving guidance on use of the SI.(6)
Note that the FPLA does *not* say that CGS, MTS, MKS, and MKfS
are not metric, merely that they are not to be used in labels. Terry
should be more specific in his quotations.
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